Crime continues to decline in southwest Brooklyn
From Bensonhurst and Gravesend through Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge, to Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights, crime continued to go down in 2017.
The 68th Precinct, which covers Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, showed an overall decrease in the seven index crimes (murder, rape, robbery, felonious assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto or GLA) of 4.72 percent over 2016, as of December 31, 2017.
That represents a total of 847 crimes reported in 2017 as compared to 889 in 2016. The categories that showed decreases were robbery (down 10.2 percent, with 79 last year as opposed to 88 the year before), felonious assault (down 17.5 percent, with 113 in 2017 compared to 137 in 2016), burglary (down 6.8 percent, with 124 in 2017 compared to 133 the prior year) and GLA (down 5.9 percent, with 95 incidents in 2017 as compared to 101 in 2016.